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JUSTICE GEORGE SILVER LOOKS BACK AT HIS JUDICIAL CAREER THAT STARTED AS A PIPEDREAM By Rob Abruzzese The Record When Justice George Silver received a call from Hon. Janet DiFiore, chief judge of the New York State Courts, offering him the job of top judge in New York City, he was shocked. It wasn’t something that he had sought out and even to this day he admits that he doesn’t know what she was thinking. Continues on page 3. PICTURED AT RIGHT: Justice George Silver, the deputy chief administrative judge for the New York City Courts. Brooklyn Eagle photo by Rob Abruzzese
Sanford Rubenstein receives the NBA Judicial Council Award for Civil Rights
Justice Thompson honored at National Bar Association conference
The National Bar Association is having its 94th Annual Conference in Manhattan this week and as part of that, it held a Judicial Memorial Service at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem on Sunday, July 21. Pictured: The late Hon. William Thompson was honored on Sunday at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. Visit brooklyneagle.com. Brooklyn Eagle file photo by Mario Belluomo
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Sanford Rubenstein is receiving the National Bar Association Judicial Council’s Award for Civil Rights during the NBA’s annual conference in Manhattan this week. Visit brooklyneagle.com.
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High-powered lawyers help foreclosure victims pro bono By Kelly Mena The Record
Lawyers representing plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against an embattled city affordable housing program responded last Thursday to the city’s earlier request that the lawsuit be dismissed, asserting the program is outright illegal. The plaintiffs asserted that the city — through its Third Party Transfer program — not only deprived homeowners of color of their civil rights, but that it also “invented” an illegal “modified in rem” process that snatches properties from owners without due process, according to Thursday’s filing. Due process is protected under the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment: “… nor shall any State deprive any person of … property, without due process of law.” Under the TPT program, the city designates “distressed” property to be transferred to qualified sponsors (nonprofit or for-profit developers) to purchase and rehabilitate distressed vacant and occupied multi-family properties. As part of the process, the city uses an in rem foreclosure, in which a court passes a judgment on a private residence in a bid to collect unpaid debts against the building, without a payment of equity to the original property owner.
The lead plaintiffs — McConnell Dorce, Cecilia Jones and Sherlivia Thomas-Murchison — asked the court “to find the municipal statute (Local Law 37) under which the Defendants execute their ‘modified in rem process’ unconstitutional on its face and as applied, and otherwise illegal.” “There is no way to ‘fix’ or ‘modernize’ something that is illegal. The city’s acts are repugnant to the Constitution,” said attorney Yolande Nicholson in a public statement. The plaintiffs claim that not only were their buildings far from “distressed,” but the properties that were illegally seized represent wealth creation and legacy in traditionally lower-income neighborhoods that was decimated through the program. “The Complaint clearly alleges that Plaintiffs’ property was deceptively and surreptitiously seized from them with no notice, with no opportunity to be heard, for purposes other than tax collection, and with no compensation or right of redemption, even when the purported tax charges constituted a tiny fraction of the value of the property, and there was no indication that the property owners had abandoned such property or that the property was distressed,” the lawsuit reads. This filing is in response to the city’s filing back in May to dismiss the initial class action lawsuit complaint.
The city pushed earlier this year to dismiss the lawsuit on two bases: that the federal court didn’t have jurisdiction over a state court matter and that the complaint failed to state a claim of relief that the TPT program is not taking without
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just compensation. “The City’s in rem law and process do not violate the 14th Amendment. It is well-settled that there is no requirement that a former owner receive surplus funds following in rem tax foreclosure,” the city argued in May. The suit names New York City, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (which runs the TPT program), the public/private entity Neighborhood Restore and the nonprofit Developer Bridge Street among the co-defendants. The city will have an opportunity to respond back to this filing in the coming months. If successful, the lawsuit could potentially restore over $60 million in wealth among black and Latinx property owners across Central Brooklyn. “The city’s position is that they can confiscate homes that are the life savings of people of color and pay nothing. We are asking the court to recognize that TPT is both illegal and unconstitutional and to shut it down,” said attorney Keith Wofford, a partner with Ropes & Gray law firm, in a public statement. The filing came just days before a June 22 City Council hearing to evaluate the terms of seizure under the program and potentially redefine the parameters of “distressed” — the threshold the city uses to identify properties eligible for the program.
Justice Kathy Levine will headline upcoming BBA CLEs
Brooklyn Bar Association Trustee Daniel Antonelli is another frequent CLE lecturer. By Rob Abruzzese The Record
With Frank Carone recently installed as the new president of the Brooklyn Bar Association, plans for upcoming continuing legal education lectures are underway for September with Kings County Supreme Court Justice Katherine Levine leading one of the planned CLEs. For the most part, bar associations across
Jim Cahill will be one of the presenters who will Mark Caruso, pictured here with law partner RoseAnn Branda, will lecture on cover e-filing in the Surrogate’s Court in October. updates in real estate law. Eagle file photos by Rob Abruzzese the city offer little in the way of live CLE during July and August, and the Brooklyn Bar Association is no different. However, that will quickly change once September rolls around. The BBA has a number of CLE courses that it is preparing for the fall months, but four were ready to be announced this week. On Sept. 19, the Civil Rights Committee chaired by Dewey Golkin and Jonathan Stead is hosting a CLE on immigration law.
The BBA recently created the Immigration Law Committee, which wasn't initially involved with organizing it, but the event will likely be the public's formal introduction to the new committee. On Sept. 24, Justice Levine will lead a CLE on recent updates to sexual harassment laws in the city and state. This CLE is expected to be interactive and will fulfill new sexual harassment training requirements that were put into place on April 1, according to
BBA Membership Director Jen Bryan. On Sept. 25, Mark Caruso, a partner in the firm Abrams Fensterman, will lead a CLE titled "Real Estate Potpourri." On Oct. 7, BBA Trustee Daniel Antonelli along with attorneys Jim Cahill and Cheryl Erato will present on e-filing in the Surrogate's Court. The two-hour discussion will cover how the e-filing system in the Surrogate's Court is unique, and it will also cover standards and goals in the court.
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News Around the Boro BAY RIDGE — U.S. Rep. Max Rose (D-Southern Brooklyn-Staten Island) last week visited the Rio Grande Valley in Texas as part of a bipartisan Homeland Security delegation to examine migrants’ conditions at the Mexican border, according to the Brooklyn Reporter. The group visited facilities near McAllen Texas, including a Border Patrol station, processing center and holding facility. They also visited a Department of Health and Human Services shelter and let with local immigration activists. “Our tour was a powerful experience, and seeing the crisis firsthand only reaffirms what we all know and have seen reported — that human beings are suffering in our custody,” said Rose. BOROUGHWIDE — The MTA plans to cut back service on three Brooklyn bus routes starting this fall, according to the Brooklyn Paper. Commuters on the B38, which runs from Bushwick to Downtown, will wait up to three minutes longer for buses on weekdays. The B43, which runs along Myrtle Avenue, will have fewer buses on weekdays except during evening rush hours. The B15, which goes from Bedford-Stuyvesant to JFK Airport, will have longer waits at middays on weekdays. To mitigate the loss of some buses, the MTA is adding longer, articulated buses to the B38. CITYWIDE — NYCHA Federal Monitor Bart Schwartz released his first report Monday, according to NBC4. This team found that there have been 18 youths with high levels of lead in their blood so far this year. “NYCHA management has been less cooperative with respect to lead paint,” the report said. NYCHA’s calculations of where children under the age of 6 live within the city projects, the report continued, are based on unreliable or out-of-date information. “When we initially pressed on these and other issues, we met with resistance,” the report added. CROWN HEIGHTS — Switching problems underneath the Eastern Parkway subway’s Franklin Avenue station, where the 5 and 2 trains branch off from the 4 and 3, caused some riders to be stuck underground for about two hours on Monday afternoon, according to Patch. Lights were on in the train and the air conditioning was working, said several straphangers’ tweets, but riders still were frustrated. The situation also caused long lines at other stations as people waited for trains to come in. The MTA warned riders to expect delays on the 2, 3, 4 and 5 trains as far away as Manhattan and the Bronx and suggested the B, Q, D and R trains as an alternative. DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — A man suspected of being a serial subway exhibitionist who has repeatedly been seen touching his nether regions while sucking his thumb has been arrested, according to the New York Post. Suspect James Hunt was chased down and tased at the Court Street-Borough Hall station in Brooklyn after resisting arrest on Saturday morning. Earlier, he had allegedly been seen masturbating outside the MTA booth at the station. On June 11, a woman snapped a picture of a person believed to be Hunt masturbating inside the same station, police said. Sgt. Chris O’Connell of the Transit Special Victims Unit said that combating serial subway sex crime offenders has been an “uphill battle” for police. “It’s terrifying for anyone, especially younger victims,” he told the Post. EAST FLATBUSH — Permits have been filed for a six-story residential building at 1644 New York Ave. in East Flatbush, according to New York YIMBY. The lot, located between Glenwood Road and Avenue H, is three blocks east of the 2 and 5 trains’ Flatbush Avenue station. The building would have 36 apartments, most likely rentals, as well as a cellar and 12 enclosed parking spaces. Demolition permits for the one-family house that is now on the lot were filed this March. Edmond Hakimian is listed as the architect of record. FLATBUSH — Rapper Sean “P. Diddy” Combs has launched a summer event that took place earlier this week at the Kings Theatre in Flatbush, which also starred his son Justin Combs, Charlemagne da God, Joe Budden, Remy Ma and others, according to the New York Post. In addition to performances, the event will include a live presentation of the TV show “State of the Culture” as well as a panel. This will be the kickoff event for Combs’ Revolt Summit, which, Combs said, “brings together artists, creators and executives to celebrate the culture and empower the community.” After the performance in Brooklyn, the Summit is traveling to Atlanta and Los Angeles. FLOYD BENNETT FIELD — The biggest inflatable children’s “bounce house” in the world is coming to Aviator Sports and Events Center at Floyd Bennett Field for 10 days, beginning on July 26, according to the Brooklyn Paper. “It’s the biggest bounce house in the world — that’s according to the Guinness Brook of World Records,” said Cameron Craig, founder of Big Bounce America, the bounce house’s operator. The house features a ball pit, climbing towers, basketball hoops and a DJ station to keep the party hopping. “We’ve got a lot going on in
Culex mosquitoes infected with the West Nile virus have been discovered in New York City Health Department monitoring traps in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, the city said Wednesday afternoon. The Health Department is urging people to protect themselves from mosquito bites using insect repellent and protective clothing. Above, workers with the New York City Health Department load bags of mosquito larvicide into pods on the side of a helicopter for aerial treatments in 2016. AP photo by Mark Lennihan there, from limbo competitions, dance competitions, dodgeball,” said Craig. Separate time slots for the house are arranged by age group: toddlers, children age 4-7, children age 8-14 and adults. FORT GREENE — The Fort Greene Park Conservancy has hired its first-ever executive director — Rosamond Fletcher, according to the Brooklyn Paper. She comes to the conservancy after seven years as director of programs for the Design Trust for Public Space. “Fort Greene Park exists in a unique context with great socioeconomic diversity, so the conservancy has a responsibility to engage with all community members to balance priorities and build consensus,” she said. She looks forward to “talking to people in the park about their experiences in the park, what they care about and how the conservancy can strengthen their connection to the park.” GOWANUS — An infant defecating in the city’s Douglass and DeGraw Pool in Gowanus shut down the facility in the midst of Saturday’s extreme heat wave, according to the New York Post. Patrons who showed up hoping to beat the heat were incensed with the news. Around 11 a.m., a line began to form outside the gates. After workers informed would-be pool goers of the closure, many of those on line decided to head for the Red Hook Pool instead. Temperatures topped 100 degrees on both Saturday and Sunday. GREENPOINT — Hundreds of music superstar hopefuls lined up on Tuesday at the Brooklyn Expo Center on Noble Street in Greenpoint to audition for “American Idol,” according to ABC7. Justin Guarini, runner-up for the show’s first season, was on hand for the auditions. “Talent will take you only so far,” he said. “Your story is going to take you over the top.” Madison Vandenburg, who reached the final three last year, also had some advice for the contestants. “They should take a few minutes for themselves before the audition and just calm down and maybe even warm up a bit before they go on.” Eligible contestants must be between 18 and 25 years old. MIDWOOD — U.S. Sen. and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ early life in Brooklyn taught him some valuable lessons in life, according to the Associated Press. Sanders recalled that he and his brother shared a trundle bed in his parents’ 3½-room apartment, and that the family, while not poor, lived “from paycheck to paycheck.” Losing his mother when he was 18 also made life difficult for Sanders and contributed to his desire to leave the community where he’d grown up. “Our parents for the most part were American-born, but our grandparents weren’t, and we knew what it was to struggle,” David Sillen, a classmate of Sanders, told the Associated Press. Sanders has described his family as “lower middle class” and has said his parents frequently quarreled over money. PARK SLOPE — Learn to make your own neon signs at Brooklyn Glass, located at 13th Street and Third Avenue. Brooklyn Glass
co-founder Avid Ablon told CBS New York that, “You’re almost feeling like it’s dangerous, but it’s safe, so you almost end up with kind of an adrenaline high — playing with hot glass.” For $280, people can learn how to heat glass, how to blow it, how to bend it and how to handle it. “[The students] are very experienced in other fields — architecture, accounting, design — all sorts of things. But they come in to get their hands dirty and actually do something.” PROSPECT HEIGHTS — A quirky Brooklyn can collector who lived out of her trash-filled car until recently, yet owns millions in Manhattan real estate, faces fines of $5,000 a day because she’s allowed a rowhouse she owns at 451 Convent Ave. to become totally rundown, according to the New York Post. The 122-year-old building has partially collapsed floors, holes in the roofs, missing skylights and windows, and other deteriorating features, city Landmarks Preservation Commission said. The woman, Lisa Fiekowski, told the Post she didn’t know about the lawsuit. She said the damage in the building arose after a fire next door many years ago. Fiekowski added that she was forced to give up her garbage-filled car after it broke down. PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — Jason “Kai” Jacobs, who was recently found guilty of pouncing on and beating to death 66-year-old Marc Faust outside the Food Corp. Deli on Rogers Avenue in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, spoke some chilling words in an interview on Rikers Island last Friday, according to popularcrime.com. “I don’t care about that guy,” Jacobs said. “I don’t owe him anything.” Jacobs insisted, despite evidence to the contrary, that Faust attacked him first. “I had to punch him however much as I needed to.” Prosecutors said the fight began after the two engaged in a “stare down” inside the bodega. RED HOOK — After years of delay, barbecue master Billy Durney’s Red Hook Tavern, focusing on classic New York food, opened Friday. The restaurant-bar at 329 Van Brunt St. was inspired by some of Durney’s favorite restaurants and bars, such as Corner Bistro and McSorley’s Old Ale House, according to New York Eater. Among its offerings are dry-aged burgers, brick chicken, dry-aged strip steak, chicken liver pate, cheese and charcuterie, country ham croquettes and a romaine wedge salad with bacon. Durney is best known as a partner in Hometown BBQ, also on Van Brunt Street. SUNSET PARK — Five months after an electrical fire at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park cut off power and heat for prisoners for a week, the federal facility caught fire again last Friday afternoon, according to Gothamist. The fire broke out in a laundry room at the jail, but firefighters were able to put it out within an hour. Lawyers who were visiting clients at the jail when the fire broke out said that the facility went into lockdown and reported chemical smoke coming from the vents as they were escorted out of the building Six people suffered minor injuries and were taken to local hospitals for treatment, the FDNY said.
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+++ ZANNOTTI, Marie (nee Roccanova) passed away in her home in North Palm Beach, Florida on June 22 at the age of 100. She was born on April 13, 1919 on Thompson Street in Soho. She was the loving wife of the late Albert; the cherished mother of Ida Chamberlin and her husband, Stanley; the beloved grandmother of Edward Zambrano and his wife, Michelle; and the doting great-grandmother of Maxwell Zambrano. She was the loving step-grandmother to Lorilyn, Glenn and Susan Chamberlin and also the loving step great-grandmother to David, Stephen and Caroline De Carlo; Zachary, Christina and Dylan Chamberlin; and Clark and Phoebe Chamberlin. She was the very dear sister of the late Vincent “Jim” Roccanova and the late Angelina Zannotti and was the very dear sister of Frank Roccanova and Camille Vivo. All arrangements handled by Clavin Funeral Home. Funeral Mass St. Anselm Church. Interment Greenwood Cemetery.
+++ TUOHY, John “Jack” Leo — A lifelong resident of Brooklyn passed away on Sunday, July 21 at home in Brooklyn surrounded by loved ones. John was born on February 3, 1923 in Brooklyn and is the son of the late John and the late Annie (Morris) Tuohy. John married
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+++ TRIVLIS, Aphrodite — Age 101, of Brooklyn entered into eternal rest on Friday, July 19. Mrs. Trivlis was born July 20, 1917 in Thermo, Greece.
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Graveyard Shift performance series coming to Green-Wood Cemetery BY ALEX WILLIAMSON EDITORIAL@ BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM
Need a reason to live? Here’s one more thing to do before kicking the bucket: spend a summer evening contemplating your mortality at a moonlit show in Green-Wood cemetery. Green-Wood has teamed up with Pioneer Works to present Graveyard Shift, a performance series that will feature two site-specific shows this summer, commissioned for and inspired by the spooky setting. Experimental guitarist Yonatan Gat and the Eastern Medicine Singers, a traditional Algonquin pow wow group Gat has been collaborating with since 2017, will perform at the cemetery’s historic Cedar Dell on July 27. The group plays in a circular formation with the audience surrounding them, rather than keeping the performer on one side and the audience on the other. The circling will get downright concentric when the show comes to the center of Cedar Dell, where the tombstones are already arranged in a ring.
After the performance, the Native American group will lead the audience out of the cemetery with a drumline procession along a moonlit path. According to Gat, the evening will include music and chanting that’s meant in Algonquin tradition to commune with the dead, and which the group doesn’t normally perform in traditional venues. “It’s going to be a very intense experience,” said Gat. “One can’t help but kind of wonder about his own mortality and that of their loved ones in a situation like that. And part of the idea behind the series is to not fear those thoughts and to just accept them as perhaps a beautiful part about being alive.” Interdisciplinary artist and choreographer Kim Brandt will present her new dance performance piece, “Untitled,” at Cedar Dell on August 10. The work will feature performers collapsing mobile structures in “a rumination on circles, spheres, spirals and loops.” Brandt, who has performed at the Shed in Hudson Yards and MoMA PS1, created the
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Yonatan Gat will perform with the traditional Algonquin pow wow group the Eastern Medicine Singers at GreenWood Cemetery on July 27. show especially for the cemetery and has been using Cedar Dell for rehearsals. While it might sound odd for Green-Wood to find a second life as a concert venue as the graveyard begins to run out of burial space, Graveyard Shift is
really about getting back to the cemetery’s roots, according to the series’ co-organizer Bethany Tabor. Tabor points out that, in its early years, Green-Wood was something of a proto-Prospect Park and treated as much as
a picnic ground as a burial ground by the Victorians. “They had a very different relationship to death in that time period. Since then, that relationship has been diminished and harmed in my opinion.” said Tabor. “Events
and programs happening at the cemetery sort of brings us back to that time where we in Western society can mingle with each other and make the cemetery a social space again.” For tickets and info, visit here.
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Eye on REAL ESTATE Come see the M-Crown area CB8 wants to rezone THE BOROUGH PRESIDENT SUPPORTS THIS PROPOSAL FOR NORTH CROWN HEIGHTS. By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams backs a neighborhood-led upzoning proposal in North Crown Heights — rezoning that, if enacted, would require developers to create space for job-generating light industrial and artisanal “maker” businesses and community facilities in new residential buildings.
Come take a stroll around the area that has been the focus of several years of effort by Community Board 8’s MCrown Subcommittee, which crafted the rezoning proposal. As the Brooklyn Eagle reported, Adams announced his support for it just last week and called it “a new model for mixed development.” Adams is part of a coalition of citywide advocates and community leaders that sup-
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range of businesses to locate in close proximity to residences.” The area includes blocks bounded by Atlantic Avenue, Grand Avenue, Bergen Street and Franklin Avenue and a stretch of Atlantic Avenue that extends to Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights. It has interesting businesses in it plus a sprinkling of beautiful rowhouses and repurposed manufacturing buildings. It’s also riddled with vacant lots and empty industrial buildings — properties that present opportunities for development in which housing would cross-subsidize manufacturing space, M-Crown Subcommittee members believe. P.S. In case you didn’t know, CB8 represents the neighborhoods of North Crown Heights, Prospect Heights and Weeksville.
AN OLD BREWERY AND A SERVICE STATION FOR STUDEBAKERS
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1916. Now 925 Bergen St. is rented out to commercial tenants, including numerous artists.
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This is Long Island Railroad Sub-Station No. 1 on Atlantic Avenue.
For those of us who are eye-minded, getting a good look at the buildings and vacant lots in the M-Crown zone is a helpful way to draw our minds into this unfolding rezoning story. I did not make up the word “eye-minded.” Recently, it was Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day. According to that posting, eye-minded means “disposed to perceive one's environment in visual terms and to recall sights more vividly than sounds or smells, etc.” So. I strolled around the MCrown area and took pictures. I started on Bergen Street, whose north side is within the M-Crown zone. One thing that caught my eye was a vast grassy lot behind the Brooklyn Pentacostal Assembly. Another thing was redbrick 925 Bergen St., designed by architect John Platte and built in 1885. It’s part of a complex of buildings formerly owned by Nassau Brewery Co. They’re all listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 10INB •• INBROOKLYN Press/Home Reporter/Brooklyn Spectator/Brooklyn Record/Greenpoint Gazette • Week of July 25,Gazette 2019 • Week of July 25–31, 2019 10INB INBROOKLYN — — AA Special SpecialSection SectionofofBrooklyn BrooklynEagle/Heights Daily Eagle/Brooklyn Eagle/Heights Press/Home Reporter/Brooklyn Spectator/Brooklyn Record/Greenpoint
Eye on REAL ESTATE The M-Crown zone is a mix of auto repair shops, industrial buildings and housing. INBrooklyn photos by Lore Croghan
Now it’s time to check out Atlantic Avenue. The south side of this busy speedway is included in the M-Crown zone. There are numerous auto repair shops, service stations and car washes. There’s a surprise at 1020 Atlantic Ave. — a distinguished building known as Long Island Railroad Sub-Station No. 1. A Brownstoner.com story by architectural history expert As you of course know, at a market like this, the customers buy Suzanne Spellen says the Romanesque Revival building was live birds which the employees constructed in 1905. slaughter and prep for cooking. New York City residents from a variety of cultural backgrounds would rather shop at live poultry markets than buy packaged chicken at grocery stores. Back on Dean Street, afternoon car traffic was backed up. Luckily I was on foot. I turned onto Grand Avenue and walked past a busy tire repair business to the corner of Pacific Street. On the corner at 977-985 Pacific St., there was a vacant field with weeds as tall as I am. I wonder if Elichai Pariente knows that a part of the lot’s chain-link fence has fallen down. Finance Department records show that he’s the authorized signatory of
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The eye-catching house on the corner is 629 Classon Ave. — Continued from page 10INB — At Franklin Avenue I turned the corner and swung around to Dean Street. Arguably the M-Crown zone’s best known building is there — 1000 Dean St., which Brooklyn Flea co-founder Jonathan Butler and his partners turned into a hip office building a half-decade ago. The century-old building was formerly a service station for Studebaker cars.Butler and his partners recently sold 1000 Dean St. for $55.95 million to LIVWRK, city Finance Department records indicate.
A CHOCOLATE FACTORY AND LIVE CHICKENS The Pirika Chocolate Co. building is further down the block, at 972 Dean St. It’s an interesting-looking There’s an enormous grassy lot behind the corner building, which is the Brooklyn Pentacostal Assembly. old industrial property. Around the corner at 622 EMP Grand Pacific LLC, which bought the lot for $6.05 Classon Ave., I discovered T & S Live Poultry. million last year. Anybody who’s brave enough to wade through the weeds could just walk right onto the property.
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Justice George Silver looks back at his judicial career By Rob Abruzzese The Record
When Justice George Silver received a call from Hon. Janet DiFiore, chief judge of the New York State Courts, offering him the job the top judge in New York City, he was shocked. It wasn’t something that he had sought out and even to this day he admits that he doesn’t know what she was thinking. It was her faith in him that got him to buy into her Excellence Initiative and his experience as a judge and a lawyer that armed him with ideas of how best to implement it that had him excited for the job. “I was shocked,” said Justice Silver. “People were talking to me, but I didn’t put in for it and I certainly didn’t expect it. For the first four months, I had to write down the job title because I couldn’t remember it. I was just flattered and honored that Judge DiFiore thought enough about me to offer me the job.” Silver was raised in the Bronx and graduated from Christopher Columbus High School before he went on to New York University and Hofstra University School of Law. He later got an M.B.A. in finance from New York University Stern Graduate School of Business. Sitting back in his spacious Manhattan chambers, the deputy chief administrative judge for the New York City courts laughed when asked when he decided he wanted to become a lawyer and later a judge. “I am from the classic Jewish family where I was expected to become a doctor or a lawyer. I didn’t want to become a doctor and my father didn’t have his own business that I could join, so I became a lawyer.” His mother and father laid the groundwork because they were often involved in the Parkchester community, especially his father with the local firehouse and police precinct. They also put a strong emphasis on education. “I always had a great interest in helping people,” Justice Silver said. “My parents instilled in me the importance of giving back to the community and I thought a great way to do that is to become a lawyer. Ultimately, I did a lot of community work, mentoring at schools, and working with a lot of bar associations. It was very rewarding.” Out of law school, Justice Silver went to work as in-house counsel for five private bus companies operating in Queens and parts of Brooklyn. It gave him great trial experience, he said. Later on, with a stroke of luck, the judge went on to join the law firm Fields & Rosen, where he eventually became a partner, tak-
Justice George Silver was honored in 2014 by the Brooklyn Bar Association. He is very proud of the fact that he is the first judge to be honored by the BBA who wasn’t sitting in Brooklyn at the time. Justice Silver (center) is pictured here with then-President Rebecca Rose Woodland and Arthur Aidala. Brooklyn Eagle photo by Mario Belluomo ing over the business and renaming it Silver & Santo. The firm did a lot of maritime and personal injury law, and Silver was able to continue representing the bus companies. “I was very fortunate to get that job,” he said. “Someone at my previous firm had to work the Friday before the Fourth of July weekend so we flipped a coin and I lost. But I met an older lawyer that day, we got to talking and eventually he said, ‘I’m going to give you a break,’ and offered me a job.” The lawyer who hired him was Stephen Fields. Not only did he help Silver find a more permanent job, but the move brought Silver to Brooklyn where he joined the Brooklyn Bar Association and feels that his career really began to take off. “Brooklyn was a community and you felt that right away,” Silver said. “New York County is bigger, with a wider array of bar associations, and Brooklyn just felt like home. I was there every day as a lawyer. You come across the same people, you develop relationships and you want to be a part of a community.” After 19 years working as an attorney, Silver said that he felt like he needed to be doing more to help provide access to justice, so he decided to become a judge. He admit-
ted that at first, he thought the idea was a wild pipedream, but he quickly started to gain support. He was elected to Civil Court in Manhattan and assigned to Civil Court in Brooklyn in 2004. The election was a landmark in that Silver became the first openly gay man to win a countywide election in New York State. He explained that while he was openly gay, he often tried to downplay his sexual preference. “I had a tough practice representing merchant marines and luckily they cared more about me being a good lawyer than anything else,” Silver said. “Quite frankly, I was very discreet about it. The world is a different place today. I am who I am and certainly don’t hide from it.” Silver did express great respect for Justice Paul Feinman, who was the first openly gay judge in New York. And he said that it’s important to see the courts’ positive efforts in working with the LGBTQ community. In 2009, he was re-assigned to Family Court in the Bronx where he presided over juvenile delinquency matters. Then, in 2010, he was appointed to the New York County Supreme Court where he presided over 2,000 motor vehicle cases and later over the Trial
Assignment Part. In 2012, he was elected to New York County Supreme Court. As deputy chief administrative judge for New York City, Silver is responsible for handling the day-to-day operations of the courts. He was also asked to serve as interim administrative judge for the Bronx Supreme Court from January 2018 until December 2018. One of the things that Justice Silver is most proud of in his current position is that he introduced presumptive mediation to a lot of the courts. This is a program through which parties get a free session with a mediator in an attempt to avoid a trial. Early on, lawyers told the the Record that the program has been successful in moving cases along more quickly. He did this while still having a case inventory of between 800 and 900 cases a year in the Bronx and Manhattan, and he has chambers in Brooklyn as well. “I’m the DCAJ for all of New York City, not just New York County, so I wanted to see the DCAJ have more of a presence in Brooklyn and the outer boroughs,” he said. “It’s a ground game. It’s very important because it motivates the judges to see me do everything that a judge is supposed to be.”
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Workshop prepares Court interns for their future By Caroline Ourso Special to the Record
Brooklyn’s court summer interns took part in a resume building workshop that was meant to teach them the importance of control, specificity and individuality at the Kings County Supreme Court on Thursday.
Court employee Ingrid Layne, a network assistance technician, gave a brief but thorough presentation to a sizable group of teenagers packed into the courtroom that afternoon. She focused on resume tips and on our increasingly computerized and technology-oriented job market. “Most resumes now, before they even go to a person, go through a computer,” said Layne.
Layne advised learning buzzwords associated with the job a person is applying to and sprinkling those throughout the resume to help it stand out to the computer programs now widely utilized. “Tailor your resume to the job you want,” she said. “If you’re applying to 15 different jobs, you should have 15 different resumes.”For the full report visit brooklyneagle.com.
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